John O. F. Kraushaar, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 568-569 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				JOHN O. F. KRAUSHAAR, M. D.

	Dr. John O. F. Kraushaar, county physician of Brown county, and 
one of the most capable and prominent members of the medical fraternity 
in Aberdeen, was born in Waverly, Iowa, in 1886, and is a son of 
Professor O. and Marie (Staehling) Kraushaar. The father is a graduate 
in law from the University of Marburg, Germany. After he came to 
America he became professor in Wartburg College at Mendota, Illinois, 
and was later made president of Wartburg College in Clinton, Iowa. For 
twenty-four years of his active life he engaged in teaching and won an 
enviable reputation in educational circles of the middle west. He has 
now retired from active life. Among his children are: Dr. John O. F., 
of this review; Rev. W., a minister in the Lutheran church; and 
Rudolph, who is attending the State Normal School. 

	Following the completion of a public-school education Dr. John O. 
F. Kraushaar entered Wartburg College, from which he was graduated with 
the degree of B. A. in 1905. He later entered the medical department of 
the Iowa State University and received his M. D. degree from that 
institution in 1909. He located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he 
remained one year, after which he removed to Eureka, where he engaged 
in professional work until 1912. In that year he returned to Aberdeen 
and here has since engaged in practice. He has become widely and 
favorably known as a competent physician and surgeon and has built up a 
large and representative patronage. He was elected county physician of 
Brown county in 1912, and still holds that office, the duties of which 
he discharges in a conscientious and capable manner. 

	On the 1st of February, 1911, Dr. Kraushaar married Miss Emma 
Martha Rehfeld. Her father, William Rehfeld, of Aberdeen, was one of 
the pioneer farmers in South Dakota. At one period in his career he 
engaged in the contracting business and helped to grade the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Northwestern Railroads into Aberdeen. He 
is now engaged in the real-estate and loan business. Dr. and Mrs. 
Kraushaar have two children, Esther Marie and Eleanor. 

	The parents are members of the Lutheran church and Dr. Kraushaar 
is president of the Lutheran League. He holds the same office in the 
local German-American Alliance and is well known in club and social 
circles of the city. He holds membership in the American Medical 
Association and in the state and county medical societies and keeps in 
touch with the most advanced thought of his profession. He has risen to 
a high place in medical circles of Aberdeen, where he has already 
become established in a large and growing practice.